Marius The Young Giraffe (Poem)

A reader sent in this touching poem about Marius, the young giraffe put down at a Copenhagen zoo despite being perfectly healthy.

Marius the young giraffe

Marius you were only two , when Your fight for life to live at the zoo, Should have been sorted out for you, But word about your life ahead Was only heard about instead Two days before, And when discovered a huge uproar. There could have been another way, Another zoo, another day , To rearrange a better life , For Marius the young giraffe… So young and perfectly formed, Cut down in your prime, and then ignored And in turn slain, all that remained, Your skin of stripes… As hungry lions devoured you.